Bevan Chen
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Temasek Polytechnic
School of Business
Communications and Media Management

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In a way, using databases is effective as compared to the rest as the results are quite limited. By that I mean only credible research papers can be found. It is also rather accurate as boolean operators are used to filter out the irrelevant results. Using search engines usually yield many irrelevant sources as they are mainly keyword based while meta-search might not give you the desired information as well. Subject directories? I think they are the worst of the lot as the results are rather inaccurate.

Personally, I've used ebscohost for one of my modules in year 2 and I have to say that it is rather efficient in churning out accurate results. Given the chance, I will still use databases for research.